2024
Cabrera, Jorge
17th District (D)
Deputy President Pro Tempore
Towns Represented
Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Derby, Hamden (p), Naugatuck (p), Woodbridge (p)
Committees
Insurance and Real Estate (Chair); Labor and Public Employees (Vice Chair); Energy and Technology; Finance, Revenue and Bonding; Public Health; Transportation
Voting Record
Year | Vote Name | Score |
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2024 |
Teacher Certification, Mandated Reporters & more
HB 5436
Favorable vote indicates support for important changes to teacher certification, improvements to mandated reporter procedures, changes to EdTPA, supports for paraeducators, and more. |
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2024 |
Professional Development & School Climate
HB 5437
Favorable vote indicates support for reviewing and updating PD requirements, improving school culture & climate, and more. |
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2024 |
WEP/GPO Resolution
HJ 215
Favorable vote indicates support in the Labor Committee for a resolution urging Congress to repeal WEP/GPO. |
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2024 |
Behavior Notification & Assessment Audit
SB 154
Favorable vote indicates support for better student behavior notifications to parents, an standardized assessment audit, and more. |
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2024 |
School Indoor Air Quality
HB 5524
Favorable vote indicates support for and expansion of the IAQ Grant program. |
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2024 |
School Indoor Air Quality
SB 5
Favorable vote indicates support for an extension of the state IAQ Working Group. |
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2024 |
Goodwin Magnet Teacher Rights
SB 14
Favorable vote indicates support for ensuring teacher rights are maintained at Goodwin Univ. Magnet School, among other things. |
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2024 |
2024 Budget Implementer
HB 5523
Favorable vote indicates support for the budget implementer that included $550,000 to the Teachers Retirement Board for Retiree Healthcare and adding CEA to the Education Mandate Review Advisory Council. |
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2023 |
CEA Policy Proposal Package
HB 6880
Favorable vote indicates support for play based learning, earlier kindergarten start date, elimination of teacher evaluation ratings, along with other actions aimed at addressing teacher recruitment and retention. |
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2023 |
Safe Classrooms, Standardized Assessment & IAQ
SB 1
Favorable vote indicates support for addressing challenging student behavior/safe classrooms, taking steps to reduce standardized assessments, and continuing the works of the Indoor Air Quality work group, along with a number of other provisions. |
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2023 |
Play-Based Learning
SB 2
Favorable vote indicates support for play based learning. |
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2023 |
Standardized Assessment & Special Education
HB 6762
Favorable vote indicates support for taking steps to reduce standardized assessments in CT and the formation of a special education task force designed to examine case loads among other things. |
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2023 |
2023 Budget
HB 6941
Favorable vote indicates support for the 2023 bi-partisan budget, including increases to ECS funding and $150 million for improved indoor air quality in schools. |
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2023 |
Educator Tuition Assistance
HB 5441
Favorable vote indicates support for tuition assistance for educators in certain districts. |
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2023 |
Equal Protections for Educators in Labor Committee
HB 6793
Favorable vote indicates support in the Labor Committee for providing educators with the same protections as other municipal employees in matters related to prohibited practices by employers. |
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2023 |
Kindergarten Start Age Waiver
HB 5003
Favorable vote indicates support for the final version of this bill that provides for waivers for students who are developmentally ready to begin kindergarten. |
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2022 |
Retired Teachers' Health Insurance Subsidy in Finance Committee
SB 442
Favorable vote indicates support for increasing the retired teachers' healthcare subsidy from $110 to $220/month for individuals, and $220 to $440/month for married couples. |
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2022 |
Indoor Air Quality in Finance Committee
HB 5476
Favorable vote indicates support for allowing school construction bond funds to be used for school HVAC upgrades. |
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2022 |
Indoor Air Quality in Labor Committee
SB 423
Favorable vote indicates support for a comprehensive school Indoor Air Quality monitoring program, including enforceable indoor temperature standards and a sustained, long-term funding source for school HVAC upgrades. |
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2022 |
Student Mental & Behavioral Health
SB 2
Favorable vote indicates support for legislation addressing childhood depression, anxiety, and developmental delays through the expansion of support services, and critical preschool and mental & behavioral health services for children. |
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2022 |
2022 Budget
SB 5506
Favorable vote indicates support for mid-term budget adjustments, including fully funding ECS, establishing a school Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) monitoring program, authorizing $150 million for school HVAC & IAQ, and doubling the retired teachers' healthcare subsidy. |
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2022 |
Building Successful School Communities
SB 5001
Favorable vote indicates support for increased teacher voice in behavioral interventions and requiring districts to complete student trauma needs-assessments to help identify needed resources. |
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2022 |
Building Successful School Communities
SB 1
Favorable vote indicates support for critical mental and physical health services in schools, minimum staffing ratios for certified support staff, a task force on teacher recruitment and retention, prohibiting dual instruction, and guaranteeing 30 minutes per day of duty-free lunch. |
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2021 |
Housing Vouchers for Open Choice Students
HB 6436
Favorable vote indicates support for the expansion of the Open Choice program and a pilot program to provide families of Open Choice students with housing vouchers to live in the town where the student is enrolled. |
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2021 |
Teachers' Retirement System
SB 1081
Favorable vote indicates support for increasing the amount the retirees' cost of living adustments (COLAs) can be increased based on the revised rate of return for the pension fund. |
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2021 |
Minority Teacher Recruitment
SB 1034
Favorable vote indicates support for increased funding and procedures to promote the recruitment and retention of educators of color. |
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2021 |
2021 Implementer
SB 1202
Favorable vote indicates support for a bill that expanded social-emotional resources, increased the retired teacher pension income tax exemption to 50% , created a statewide model curriculum, established a Connecticut Remote Learning Commission, and prmoted the recruitment of educators of color. |
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2021 |
2021 Budget
HB 6689
Favorable vote indicates support for the budget which increased ECS funds and held districts with declining enrollments harmless. |
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2021 |
Divisive Concepts Amendment
SB 1073 - Sen. Amendment B
Favorable vote indicates opposition to a Senate amendment which sought to prohibit the teaching of "divisive concepts" like race and gender. |
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2021 |
Virtual Learning & SEL Enhancements
HB 6621
Favorable vote indicates support for SEL supports for students, and task forces inclusive of educators to review slpecial education funding and virtual earning. |
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2021 |
JANUS in Labor Committee
SB 908
Favorable vote indicates support for legislation that safeguarded CEA member rights and unhindered access to union representations in response to the JANUS Supreme Court decision in the Labor Committee. |
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2021 |
JANUS
SB 908
Favorable vote indicates support for legislation that safeguarded CEA member rights and unhindered access to union representations in response to the JANUS Supreme Court decision. |
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